This standard was last reviewed and confirmed in 2018.
Therefore this version remains current.

Defines the operation, functions, and attributes of the IEEE 1296 bus standard. Defines a high-performance 32-bit synchronous bus standard. Intended for general purpose applications to optimize block transfers, including protocol for message passing. Intended to support multiple processor modules in a functionally partitioned configuration and heterogeneous processor types in the same system and heterogeneous processor types in the same system.